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...responsible for its nickname, "The Butterfly House," and it truly looks as though the building is about to lift off like the yellow lepidopteran fluttering nearby. And, also like a butterfly, it is light and airy. The sharply angled woodwork in the towering screened-in porch could be mistaken for the patterns on a diaphanous wing. The high quality of the workmanship would also please the exacting Norm Abram of This Old House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama Modern | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...course you haven't, because badminton, table tennis, race walking and for that matter almost any of the more obscure Olympic sports haven't made the prime-time lineup. Instead, NBC relies on the more familiar gymnastics, track and field, diving - fine sports all, but focused on in the mistaken belief that, because average viewers recognize them, they'll be of greater general interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memo to NBC: How to Avoid a Greek Tragedy | 9/27/2000 | See Source »

play--Zigler says students who approach the class hoping for a gut will be sorely mistaken...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shop Until You Drop | 9/21/2000 | See Source »

...responsible for its nickname, "The Butterfly House," and it truly looks as though the building is about to lift off like the yellow lepidopteran fluttering nearby. And, also like a butterfly, it is light and airy. The sharply angled woodwork in the towering screened-in porch could be mistaken for the patterns on a diaphanous wing. The high quality of the workmanship would also please the exacting Norm Abram of "This Old House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARCHITECTURE: Redneck Modern | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

...ruling that ordered Beachwood's leaders to allow the building of a Reform temple. So naturally Gottesman assumed there would be little objection to a plan in 1996 to open two more synagogues, one for his own brand of Orthodox Judaism and another for a Hasidic group. He was mistaken. A majority of Beachwood's Jews, mostly Reform and Conservative, have fought his cause at town meetings, at the polls and in court with an obstinacy outstripping their own tormenters' 48 years ago. Gottesman realized that he was not their problem. A successful gastroenterologist who didn't wear his skullcap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Convention: Caught In The Middle | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

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